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Here's a podcast of a panel discussion between four people who played integral, yet completely different, roles in creating the world of The Wire.  Listen to writer Bill Zorzi, executive producer Nina Noble, actor Chad Coleman, who played "Cutty," the gangster turned boxing coach/youth mentor/ladies' man, and Clark Johnson.  Clark played the city editor Gus in the last season, and directed a few episodes of The Wire, including the pilot and the finale.  The conversation, hosted by Marc Steiner, took place in front of a few hundred people at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on April 30, 2008 at the opening of their new exhibit "Local Scenes on the Silver Screen: featuring The Wire."

Don't have time to listen to the podcast right now?  Click here to read the transcript.

From Left: Bill Zorzi, Chad Coleman, Marc Steiner, Nina Noble, and Clark Johnson.  Photo credit: mojo40Design of Precise Management Company.

Nina Noble, Executive Producer for The Wire, spent the past several years doing all the behind the scenes work that is required for a sucessful show. She joined Marc to share her stories and experiences from the past few years.

Major Bunny Colvin was a featured character in season three when he took it upon himself to drastically change drug policy in West Baltimore.

Bubbles is my favorite character on The Wire.

In an interview conducted at his Baltimore rowhome, Clarke Peters talks with Marc about the experience of spending the past several years portraying the intellectual cop, Detective Lester Freamon.

A soup kitchen featured in the final season is actually a real place-and a rather special one. Marc visits Viva House, a Catholic Worker soup kitchen on the west side of Baltimore.

Baltimore-based actor Robert Chew stopped by the studios to talk with Marc about the character Proposition Joe, the east side drug kingpin on The Wire that Robert spent the past several year

David Simon is the creator of The Wire.

Marc Steiner talks with Ed Burns, a former Baltimore City cop and public school teacher.